Mentor+ focuses on designing an intervention of non-formal education, offering the mentoring methodology to engage, connect and empower young people in conflict with the law. 

Mentor+ Goals

The ​main goal of the project is to upscale already existing mentoring programmes and develop a Mentoring Programme targeting juvenile offenders, through the use of digital means. Mentor+ is also focused on digitalisation. 

1. Develop a European mentoring programme for juvenile in conflict with the law to avoid their institutionalization, by creating communities’ ties and social capital and reintegrate them into society and have a life without crime, by offering them the opportunity to contact with a role model (mentor).
2. Develop a set of new tools that provide support to the mentors and to the mentoring relationships in real time.

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Mentor+ Objectives

• Design & pilot a mentoring programme for justice-involved youth in order to avoid their incarceration/ institutionalization.
• Create a Handbook for the mentors to support them in mentoring justice-involved Youth 
• Create and pilot a mobile application to support mentors and mentees in real time
• Support more than 60 juveniles at risk of deviant behaviour/ in conflict with the law to reintegrate into society and have a life without crime, by offering them the opportunity to contact with a role model (peer mentor)
• Create opportunities for transnational cooperation and exchange of practices between professionals and volunteers working in the juvenile justice system.
• Establish a community of practices within the partnership and beyond it to support the project implementation, strategic evaluation, and dissemination.